And the actor even reckons the prejudice experienced by his dad has helped make him the success he is today.

The 45-year-old, who plays caustic corner shopkeeper Navid Harrid in BBC Scotland comedy Still Game, worked shifts as a boy in his parents’ Glasgow convenience store in the 1980s.

His early work not only helped him get into character as Navid for Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill’s Craiglang comedy, it also inspired him to write his own, the award-winning Fags, Mags And Bags, in which he plays Ramesh.

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